Electronic Dart Board to Pc

[Sly]

Not sure if this is the board to be posting this on, but if it is not Mods fell free to move it to the appropriate board.

After looking and not really being able to find a stand up bar style dart board in my area that was "reasonably" priced I got the idea to try and build my own. After searching this forum I found some old threads about some other people trying to do the same thing, but the threads seemed to have died before any progress was made. I currently have an old SportCraft electronic dart board and have taken it apart and found that it has an 8x8 matrix. This would be easy enough to use a keyboard hack to get input to a pc. I have mapped out the matrix of the dart board and am currently working on the keyboard.

So does anyone have any interest and/or suggestions on doing this(ie a better, easier way). Also anyone that is good at programing a software program to enable the computer to display info like the stand up bar style boards. Having games such 01's, Cricket, etc. If I could get something like this working I would then build the stand up cab for it. I do have a little programing experience with Python and less with Java(not much experience making GUI's in either, but have done some basic programing). Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[shardian]

A good question to ask here is are the coin op dart board pc boards emulated?

[SavannahLion]

A good question to ask here is are the coin op dart board pc boards emulated?

What would there be to emulate? Scoring, coin acceptance and...?

[shardian]

A good question to ask here is are the coin op dart board pc boards emulated?

What would there be to emulate? Scoring, coin acceptance and...?

They have a cpu board that drives the scoring and output to a monitor.

[SavannahLion]

A good question to ask here is are the coin op dart board pc boards emulated?

What would there be to emulate? Scoring, coin acceptance and...?

They have a cpu board that drives the scoring and output to a monitor.

They have monitors? What's the life expectancy of the monitor around drunks with darts?

[Ken Layton]

Arachnid, Inc holds many patents on their electronic dart boards.

[SavannahLion]

OK, I get it. After searching around for longer than I wanted to I came across something called soft tip darts. No damage to monitors.

Wow, darts really came a long way. I remember fights breaking out because those sharp tips hit something other than the board.

[D_Zoot]

After looking and not really being able to find a stand up bar style dart board in my area that was "reasonably" priced

Where you at?  If you are in New England/Close to Maine I've got one I'd sell cheap,  it's an older off-route machine,  old enough to have digital displays instead of a monitor.  Too old for the route but still good for home use.  Worked last I checked it.